When poured into cereal, what is milk?

[Norellicus]

I say it is none of the above. When combined milk and cereal are more like a soup, the milk being the liquid component with a suspended solid component.

A bowl of cereal with milk is like gazpacho.

Breakfast Gazpacho.

Gazpacho is not gazpacho in its individual parts, and neither are most soups.

Cereal remains cereal regardless of what you pour over it, if anything.

Sauce is the correct answer, in culinary terms.

As to "then what do you call the milk left over", it's still sauce, brown gravy doesn't suddenly become not brown gravy just because you ate all your mashed potatoes.

[zoobernut]

Gazpacho is not gazpacho in its individual parts, and neither are most soups.

Cereal remains cereal regardless of what you pour over it, if anything.

Sauce is the correct answer, in culinary terms.

As to "then what do you call the milk left over", it's still sauce, brown gravy doesn't suddenly become not brown gravy just because you ate all your mashed potatoes.

I guess if you are referring to a bowl of cereal as a complete thing then I would consider it a gazpacho. If you are asking what to call the milk by itself then it is an ingredient or a sauce so I guess I agree with your sauce assessment.

Cereal is both a component of the dish and the complete dish.

[Knyghtmayre]

Milk is only to be considered a sauce if when mixed with the cereal it turns a color or into chocolate milk. It is a beverage when you are complete in your devouring of the actual cereal - read, not including milk - and you drink the milk from the bowl.

It is never a broth, wtf

[Norellicus]

wut? The food you pour sauce over has no bearing on the sauce itself

[Knyghtmayre]

a sauce is not a single ingredient, which milk is.

[quannum]

single ingredients can't be sauces? interesting.

[Knyghtmayre]

i can't think of a single ingredient that i consider a sauce?

[quannum]

how about clarified butter

[Conrad]

Animal juices used to baste meats are single ingredients: blood

[Knyghtmayre]

shit's cheating since afaik it's only a "sauce" when eaten with lobster

[Knyghtmayre]

Animal juices used to baste meats are single ingredients: blood

juices != sauce imo

[Conrad]

In cooking, a sauce is liquid or sometimes semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish.

Sounds right to me

[Knyghtmayre]

i shall never bow down to you skirk, for milk is not a sauce until it hits sugary sweetness that is cereal

[quannum]

clarified butter is also known as ghee, and is very popular in indian (slurpy) cuisine.

[Knyghtmayre]

i can read wiki too btw

[Conrad]

I was still talking about blood

[Ohaigaiz]

In cooking, a sauce is liquid or sometimes semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish.

Sounds right to me

pwned

[Knyghtmayre]

blood isn't the only thing that constitutes "animal juices" though

[Akanei]

Sauces are not unaltered single-ingredient items.

It is still a beverage.

[Norellicus]

That's retarded, are you telling me that you can't call pureéd tomatoes a sauce either?